Seems a bit low effort
It is a standard macro map on the easier side. On the top is a goldmine on a small island with a gold mine. But to get there you need oil for the transport (except you glitch the worker onto the island after building shipyard by blocking the other exits), but if you build the transport you don't have enough gold for a castle anymore. A strange tradeoff, especially since there is far too much gold in this level anyways.
Confused how to play this map.
First, the zappers do cost lumber despite what the description of the maps says. The cost has been set to 0, but the "use default Data" check is still there. (Not tested?) You start next right next to a goldmine as if you were supposed to go there. Is this bait? You don't have enough room to built there. You can kill another player right away to build there instead, but in that case why do you have two gnomish inventors? You can't defend both your base and those buildings, are they just for decoration? I am not sure how this map is supposed to be played. I killed orange right away as there is lots of room to build and the other land AI didn't find the way, AI has so much gold in the beginning so that they start attacking very hard quite early. I also feel that scouting is essential in this mission, but you don't have anything to scout. You have to figure it out with trial and error.
This review was posted before the latest release.
Very polished
Nice map with standard macro game against all attack types (air, sea, land). Computer uses campaign AI to create a more balanced experience. I'd rate the mission easier than expert.
Insane challenge
Not much to say, except that it is a very difficult challenge where you are put under pressure the whole time. I had to slow game speed down to beat it.
Basic map for casuals
Very basic macro map, start is a bit slow. Only 1 cpu attacks, therefor on the easier/average side of difficulty. Map itself has some minor decorations which is nice.
Stressful challenge
Cool map, having so many enemies makes defending very stressful, you very easily fall behind, but having 3 bases allows you to have the money to keep up, you need to micromanage stuff constantly though. In my opinion difficulty is expert though.
Interesting
The enemy only having grunts makes you choose a bit of a different build order than usual which is appreciated. Attacks in early game were much more severe, after that the mission drags a bit. They still build lots of grunts, but seems like they won't attack. (Probably the AI is set to default land attack and waits til it has a certain number of axe throwers / catapults before starting their next attack which never happens) Tech being locked behind rescued buildings is a bit weird, if you lose them they are gone for good. It did work because attacks started to stop, but not sure if that would work out with continuous attacks, would be hard to defend them as they are spread all over the map.
Good challenge
Very stressful but fun map. The AI keeps you busy very early and uses a build order that suits the mission well. The map itself also looks polished.
Fun to build base on this map, rescuables a bit out of place